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"You want to recruit people?""Not exactly. Though if I found good people, I would certainly try to bring them in. I want to take your recruits and find missions for them. I want to be the one who listens to what people need, who finds out what people can do and then helps them do it."

The title of Fulcrum was used by spies in the rebel network. Their purpose was to gather and distribute intelligence, and recruit new members to the rebel cause.[6] Fulcrums were supposed to keep their identities as secret as possible, and to that aim, usually modulated their voices on their transmissions.[6] They also used avatars when speaking via hologram.[7] The most common avatar was that of the Fulcrum symbol,[5][8] but Ahsoka Tano, the title's creator, was also known to use an avatar of a cloaked figure.[7]

Fulcrums were both agents and commanders, as they investigated Imperial activity and gave missions to their subordinates, they also directed forces and oversaw associated cells. The use of Fulcrum as a single codename allowed for the confusion of Imperial intelligence operations if an individual agent was uncovered.[9]

"What am I going to call you, if I can't call you Ahsoka? You'll need a code name at the least, so you can deal with other operatives.""Fulcrum. You can call me Fulcrum.""Then welcome to the Rebellion."

Kallus later tipped off Phoenix Squadron that the Empire was planning to place the planetMykapo under martial law, prompting the rebels, including the Spectres, to go there to evacuate all of the rebels and rebel sympathizers.[16] Some time after, when Bridger, Jarrus, and Chopper undertook an undercover mission to infiltrate and steal plans for Grand AdmiralThrawn'sTIE Defender initiative, the rebels were aided by Kallus. He identified himself as a Fulcrum operative using the code phrase "by the light of Lothal's moons", and helped the rebels escape with the plans. After studying the rebel infiltration, Thrawn realized that the Empire had a spy within their ranks who was leaking information to the rebels. Due to their many past encounters with Kallus, most of the Spectres were skeptical that his change of allegiance was genuine.[3]

Kallus later used his Fulcrum pseudonym to aid the Phoenix rebels by leaking intelligence about Thrawn's E-XD infiltrator droids. Using this information, the rebels Orrelios, Chopper, and AP-5 overpowered EXD-9 before it could reveal Chopper Base's location to the Empire. They then reprogrammed the droid into an improvised warhead and used it to destroy a Star Destroyer. Fulcrum later contacted the Spectres to thank them for their creativity in tackling the infiltrator droids. However, Thrawn was able to use this incident to narrow down his search for Phoenix Squadron's base to 94 systems.[17]

Afterwards, Thrawn and GovernorArihnda Pryce intercepted one of Kallus' Fulcrum transmissions and realized that Fulcrum was the code name of the mole in the Lothal sector command staff. They monitored his next transmission to learn his identity. Because only a highly-ranked Imperial could access the classified information Kallus sent in the transmission, they realized that the Fulcrum in the Lothal sector was not only a spy for the rebel network, but also a traitor to the Empire as well, and solicited the help of the head of the ISB ColonelWullf Yularen in hunting down and identifying Fulcrum by screening staff from Sector Command. Thrawn and Yularen believed that the spy was an Imperial officer who was highly placed enough to have had access to classified information, and low enough to send his transmissions to the rebel network without the Empire's knowledge. After learning that Thrawn was monitoring Fulcrum's transmissions, the Spectres mounted a mission to rescue Kallus. During the course of the mission, the rebels also deleted Atollon from Thrawn's star chart. Kallus managed to stall the investigation by implicating LieutenantYogar Lyste as Fulcrum. However, Thrawn privately deduced that Kallus was actually Fulcrum because he had concealed the arrest of Bridger. The Grand Admiral decided to keep this secret, as he felt that Kallus would be more useful as a spy than he ever was when he was still loyal.[18]

On the eve of Phoenix Cell's long-planned attack on Lothal's Imperial factories, Thrawn arrived on the planet to warn Pryce of the impending attack. Kallus, who was not invited to the meeting, used a mouse droid to spy on Thrawn from the ventilation system. At the meeting, Thrawn informed Pryce, AdmiralKassius Konstantine and Tarkin, who was attending by hologram, of the impending attack and that Phoenix Squadron was being reinforced by the fleet of GeneralJan Dodonna. Via the mouse droid, Kallus overheard everything, and set out for an old communications tower outside of Lothal City. When he tried to transmit a message, he found that his signal was being blocked, and was shortly ambushed by Thrawn. Kallus managed to destroy the Grand Admiral's jammer, letting the partial message be sent, before Thrawn and his death troopers arrested him. Thrawn explained to Kallus that the rogue agent's message was the final piece of the puzzle he needed to locate the rebel base, as its trajectory intersected with that of Dodonna's fleet. The art of the ancient people of the Lothal sector showed a star system at those coordinates, which was not on Imperial charts.[19]

At Chopper Base on Atollon, the rebel commanders received Fulcrum's warning in enough time for them to place all personnel on alert before the arrival of the Seventh Fleet. During the battle that followed, Kallus was held prisoner on the bridge of the Chimaera and forced to watch. After the rebels were forced to retreat back to the planet, and the orbital bombardment that followed, Thrawn left Pryce in charge of the fleet while he led a ground assault. One of the rebel ships, Bridger's Gauntlet, had escaped during the initial attack, and returned with reinforcements to destroy the Imperial fleet's remaining Interdictor, the other having been destroyed during the first stage of the battle. As the remaining rebel ships raced towards the blockade, Kallus took advantage of Pryce's reaction to the second Interdictor's destruction to taunt her about the mess she was making of Thrawn's fleet, causing her to order him thrown out of the airlock. He neutralized his stormtrooper guards in the turbolift and escaped the Chimaera in an escape pod, transmitting his coordinates to the Ghost, which picked him up before the remaining rebels escaped into hyperspace.[19]